News stories for Dr Hafiz A Pasha

Dr Hafiz A Pasha

Opinion

Budget strategy paper for FY2021-22

The Federal Budget for 2021-22 is likely to be presented on the 11th of June 2021. The Ministry of Finance must be...

Published 11 May, 2021 04:39am

Opinion

Medium-term budgetary strategy

The Medium-term Budgetary Strategy paper (MTBS) has been released recently by the Federal Ministry of Finance...

Published 04 May, 2021 04:26am

Opinion

Outlook for the BoP

The balance of payments (BoP) numbers for the first three quarters of 2020-21 have just been released by the SBP. By...

Published 27 Apr, 2021 03:02am

Opinion

Budgetary framework in IMF programme

The IMF Programme which remained suspended for almost one year has become operational once again. Effectively the...

Published 20 Apr, 2021 04:00am

Opinion

Questionable IMF projections

The Staff Report of the IMF on the second to fifth reviews under the Extended Fund facility to Pakistan has just ...

Published 13 Apr, 2021 04:31am

Opinion

Outlook for inflation

The rate of inflation has risen sharply in the last two months. It had come down to 5.7 percent in January 2021....

Published 06 Apr, 2021 04:23am

Opinion

Some negative economic trends

There is growing perception that the economy has turned the corner and that the growth rate is picking up while the...

Published 30 Mar, 2021 05:45am

Opinion

Budgetary impact of SOEs

The Federal Ministry of Finance has published a report recently on the state-owned enterprises (SOEs). The focus is...

Published 23 Mar, 2021 04:37am

Opinion

Rising inflation

Various price indices have risen exponentially in recent weeks. This trend is best revealed by the movement of the...

Published 16 Mar, 2021 04:43am

Opinion

Covid-19 and provincial finances

The focus of the consequences of Covid-19 on public finances has generally been at the Federal level. Some impacts...

Published 09 Mar, 2021 05:45am

Opinion

C/A: things have changed since Nov

There has been a state of euphoria about the external balance of payments of the country till recently. This has ...

Published 02 Mar, 2021 05:50am

Opinion

Raise in federal govt employees’ salaries

The federal cabinet has recently approved a special allowance to employees equal to 25 percent of the basic pay with...

Published 23 Feb, 2021 05:20am

Opinion

Conflicting indicators

The economy is in a state of transition from the deep recession during March to June 2020 after COVID-19 to a phase...

Published 16 Feb, 2021 04:07am

Opinion

Budgetary outcome in 1HFY21

The Federal Budget for 2020-21 which was presented to the National Assembly contains some moderately ambiguous...

Published 09 Feb, 2021 04:43am

Opinion

Optimism of MPS

The Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) released by the SBP is refreshingly optimistic. The policy rate has been...

Published 02 Feb, 2021 04:29am

Opinion

Rise in federal govt debt

The SBP has released the number on the stock of Federal Government debt as of the end of November 2020. This debt ...

Published 26 Jan, 2021 05:05am

Opinion

Recovery in industrial production

The recent release of the estimates of the Quantum Index of Manufacturing (QIM), for the period of July to November,...

Updated 19 Jan, 2021 04:43am

Opinion

SBP projections for 2020-21

The SBP report on the State of the Economy in the first quarter of 2020-21 has been released recently. The report...

Published 12 Jan, 2021 03:01am

Opinion

Monthly reporting by MoF: good practice

The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has started a very good practice since March 2020 of preparing a monthly report with...

Published 05 Jan, 2021 03:14am

Opinion

Trend in real wages

Identification of the trend in real wages of different types of workers is perhaps the best way to determine the...

Updated 29 Dec, 2020 03:48am

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Investments / May 12 786 Investments Limited(786)	7.55 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL- Abbas / May 12 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	352.25 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / May 12 Agro Allianz limited(AAL)	11.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / May 12 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / May 12 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / May 12 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	68.92 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / May 12 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	780.20 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / May 12 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Attock Cement / May 12 Attock Cement Pakistan Limited(ACPL)	161.23 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Adam Sugar / May 12 Adam Sugar Mills Limited(ADAMS)	23.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Investments / May 12 786 Investments Limited(786)	7.55 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL- Abbas / May 12 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	352.25 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / May 12 Agro Allianz limited(AAL)	11.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / May 12 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / May 12 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / May 12 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	68.92 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / May 12 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	780.20 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / May 12 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Attock Cement / May 12 Attock Cement Pakistan Limited(ACPL)	161.23 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Adam Sugar / May 12 Adam Sugar Mills Limited(ADAMS)	23.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume

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Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / May 11	152.30
USD PKR Interbank Buying / May 11	152.20
USD to Japanese Yen / May 11	108.63
USD to Swiss Franc / May 11	0.90
Pound Sterling to USD / May 11	1.41
Euro to USD / May 11	1.21
UK LIBOR % / May 11	0.06

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / May 11	4152.10
India Sensex / May 11	49161.81
Tokyo Nikkei / May 11	28608.59
Nasdaq / May 11	13389.43
Hang Seng / May 11	28013.81
FTSE 100 / May 11	6947.99
Dow Jones / May 11	34269.16
Germany DAX 30 / May 11	15119.75
France CAC40 / May 11	6267.39